"hotwheels514" wrote in message
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Thanks for the replies. The severely nothced part is in the staircase...ie
you are walking up to the 2nd floor and you look up.

So, you do realize that this joist is under a much larger load that the
other joists? It's partly responsible for holding up all the other joists
that stop at the staircase. It's pretty much the worst part you could cut
into.